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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: it would be nice
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Date: 2 Oct 90 19:00:56 GMT
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In article <1990Oct3.012837.21296@kcbbs.gen.nz> STT@kcbbs.gen.nz (Michael Clark) writes:
>One thing you forgot! the Amiga 500's originally were 512k, until recently
>when Commodore upgraded them to 1 Meg. 

True, and the original A1000's had only 256k...

>Also to upgrade them to 9 Meg you have to get a card like the SIMM card
>which sits in the CPU slot! this allows you to add more RAM! it cannot be
>done directly onto the mother board.

Of course it can!  It's a hack of course...

At any rate, I have seen at least one 4(2?)Meg board which stuffs itself into
the mini-slot under the A500's belly.  That's a recent board which you may
not have heard of.

Also, to add a harddrive to an A500 requires using that "CPU slot," and most
harddrive boxes come with room to put your memory -- adding more memory to
an A500 is no longer as painful as it was in the days when I had one...

>--- From a Ex Amiga user.

Just clearing the air, no flames implied, and absolutely no support to the
"folks" who started this thread...

---from a current Amiga owner :)
David Navas                                   navas@sim.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me